Book Reviews: By subject: Business History

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry

by F. Robert van der Linden

reviewed by Karen Dunn-Haley on May 28, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

American Business Leaders

by Neil A. Hamilton

reviewed by K. Austin Kerr on July 14, 1999

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

American Business, 1920-2000: How It Worked

by Thomas K. McCraw

reviewed by Larry Schweikart on July 1, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Art, luxe et industrie: Bianchini Férier, un siècle de soieries lyonnaises

by Pierre Vernus

reviewed by George J. Sheridan Jr. on February 23, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Asian Merchants and Businessmen in the Indian Ocean and the China Sea

by Denys Lombard and Jean Aubin

reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on November 7, 2000

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B)

Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971

by Dimitry Anastakis

reviewed by Thomas W. Zeiler on March 17, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915

by John Brown

reviewed by Albert J. Churella on April 23, 1996

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B)

Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000

by Marcelo Bucheli

reviewed by Alan Dye on August 20, 2008

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Banking and Business in the Roman World

by Jean Andreau

reviewed by David Tandy on January 29, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Ancient (2)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937

by Linsun Cheng

reviewed by Man Bun Kwan on December 16, 2003

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Banking, the State and Industrial Promotion in Developing Japan, 1900-73

by Shinji Ogura

reviewed by James Mak on March 5, 2003

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Barclays: The Business of Banking, 1690-1996

by Margaret Ackrill and Leslie Hannah

reviewed by Peter Wardley on March 31, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America

by Kenneth Warren

reviewed by Paul Tiffany on April 22, 2009

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Beyond Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961

by Jonathan J. Bean

reviewed by Colin Gordon on January 9, 1997

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995

by K. Austin Kerr and Mansel G. Blackford

reviewed by Kenneth L. Simons on December 16, 1997

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B)

Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration

by Jonathan J. Bean

reviewed by William M. McClenahan on April 16, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001

by Kenneth Warren

reviewed by Malcolm Russell on November 22, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America

by Walter A. Friedman

reviewed by Scott J. Vitell on September 23, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)

The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive and Industrial Enterprise

by David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten

reviewed by David L. Mason on July 3, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary

by Michael E Lomax

reviewed by Michael Haupert on September 9, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940

by Howell John Harris

reviewed by Daniel Jacoby on October 12, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)

Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age

by John Lauritz Larson

reviewed by Albert J. Churella on June 14, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B)

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

by Scott A. Sandage

reviewed by Susan Nance on October 6, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Boss: Management Tips for Today from a Nineteenth Century Cattle Drive

by Tim Frazier and Dana Frazier

reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on June 1, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)

The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French Industrial Enterprise, 1850 -1970

by Robert J. Smith

reviewed by Esther Redmount on September 6, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

reviewed by William Sjostrom on April 4, 2007

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Brides Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition

by Vicki Howard

reviewed by Janice M. Traflet on February 1, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Bristol Historical Resource CD

by Peter Wardley (editor)

reviewed by Lisa Bud-Frierman on March 12, 2003

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

British Petroleum and Global Oil, 1950-1975: The Challenge of Nationalism

by James Bamberg

reviewed by Jonathan Brown on March 4, 2002

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909

by Jonathan W. Singer

reviewed by Werner Troesken on January 9, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Builders: Herman and George R. Brown

by Joseph A. Pratt and Christopher J. Castaneda

reviewed by Paul Carlson on March 30, 1999

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Building a Global Bank: The Transformation of Banco Santander

by Mauro F. Guillen and Adrian Tschoegl

reviewed by Joseph M. Santos on January 22, 2009

Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Business and Industry in Nazi Germany

by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener (editors)

reviewed by Thomas Ferguson on April 3, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E)

Business and Politics in Europe. 1900-1970: Essays in Honour of Alice Teichova

by Terry Gourvish (editor)

reviewed by Maurice Kirby on October 8, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia

by David Glasner

reviewed by Robert Whaples on September 5, 1997

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B)

Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK

by Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey and Jon Press

reviewed by Hugo Cerón-Anaya on November 17, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Business History and Business Culture

by Andrew Godley and Oliver M. Westall

reviewed by Ernest Teagarden on March 31, 1999

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B)

Business History around the World

by Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones (editors)

reviewed by William H. Becker on January 13, 2006

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison

by Michael P. Gray

reviewed by Pamela Nickless on June 13, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865

by Mark R. Wilson

reviewed by Roger Ransom on October 1, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O)

The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833

by H.V. Bowen

reviewed by Santhi Hejeebu on April 9, 2007

Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)

California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939

by Nahum Karlinsky

reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006

Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920

by Edith Sparks

reviewed by Pamela J. Nickless on March 28, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)

The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America

by Thomas A. Kinney

reviewed by Tom Dicke on August 1, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914

by Margot C. Finn

reviewed by Laura Ugolini on April 7, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945

by Parks M. Coble

reviewed by Andrea McElderry on June 6, 2005

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business

by Lowell J. Satre

reviewed by Roger Southall on June 21, 2005

Geographic area: Africa (1)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N)

The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade

by Stan Hoig

reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on August 8, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)

The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-century France and England

by Mary Sponberg Pedley

reviewed by Susan Danforth on November 16, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6)
Subject: Business History (B), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest

by Linda Carlson

reviewed by Lawrence W. Boyd on September 14, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Historical Geography (K), Labor and Employment History (T)

Competition and Growth: A Contemporary History of the Continental AG

by Paul Erker

reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on April 13, 1998

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B)

Contract and Property in Early Modern China

by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko and Robert Gardella (editors)

reviewed by Carol H. Shiue on September 30, 2004

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)

Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883

by Joel Best

reviewed by Robin L. E. Hemenway on July 26, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period

by Makoto Kasuya (editor)

reviewed by Kris James Mitchener on December 18, 2003

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)

Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870

by James Taylor

reviewed by Ranald C. Michie on March 12, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business

by Roland Marchand

reviewed by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf on January 20, 1999

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720

by Natasha Glaisyer

reviewed by David Hussey on July 5, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business

by Rowena Olegario

reviewed by Brandon Dupont on July 15, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich

by Neil Gregor

reviewed by Alfred C. Mierzejewski on May 20, 1999

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night

by Dina Berger

reviewed by Byron Crites on December 20, 2006

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History

by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (editors)

reviewed by Sakis Gekas on July 15, 2005

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)

Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age

by Thomas C. Owen

reviewed by Steven Nafziger on June 2, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)

Disaster in Dearborn: The Story of the Edsel

by Thomas E. Bonsall

reviewed by Thomas R. Winpenny on September 23, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler and the New Economy

by Richard N. Langlois

reviewed by Arthur M. Diamond Jr. on August 6, 2009

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)

Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses

by David S. Landes

reviewed by Peter Temin on February 28, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers

by Gerald J. Baldasty

reviewed by Barbara Straus Reed on August 25, 1999

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B)

The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914

by Tracy C. Davis

reviewed by Pam Pilbeam on July 25, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions

by Cathy Matson (editor)

reviewed by David B. Ryden on January 24, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and Structure in British Industry

by George Symeonidis

reviewed by Margaret C. Levenstein on July 9, 2003

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)

The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930

by Michael Stephen Smith

reviewed by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on May 8, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B)

Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925

by Philip Scranton

reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on June 24, 1998

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B)

Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood

by Bernard F. Dick

reviewed by Jonathan Snyder on October 19, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940

by Gerben Bakker

reviewed by Michael Pokorny on April 28, 2009

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

The Entertainment Industry

by Michael Haupert

reviewed by Gerben Bakker on April 26, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961

by Samuel P. Black Jr. and John Paul Rossi

reviewed by Jeffrey J. Matthews on October 11, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil:The Formation of a Business Environment

by Sergio de Oliveira Birchal

reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward on November 9, 1999

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B)

Envy of the World: A History of the U.S. Economy and Big Business

by Timothy J. Botti

reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on February 7, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c.1700-1780

by David Oldroyd

reviewed by James Jaffe on April 2, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)

European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945

by Christopher Kobrak and Per H. Hansen (editors)

reviewed by Thomas Ferguson on April 3, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E)

The Evolution of International Business: An Introduction

by Geoffrey Jones

reviewed by Graham D. Taylor on July 10, 1996

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Family, Family Firm and Strategy: Six Dutch Family Firms in the Food Industry, 1880-1970

by Doreen Arnoldus

reviewed by Andrea Colli on October 19, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860

by Martin Bruegel

reviewed by Laurence J. Malone on October 17, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B)

Finance Capitalism and Germany's Rise to Industrial Power

by Caroline Fohlin

reviewed by Carsten Burhop on September 14, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance

by Robert E. Wright

reviewed by Peter L. Rousseau on September 26, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State

by Jennifer Klein

reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on August 26, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T)

Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia

by Andrew M. Schocket

reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on July 19, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

The Free Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996

by Mira Wilkins and Harm Schroter

reviewed by Gordon Boyce on July 30, 1999

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B)

From Boardroom to the War Room: America's Corporate Liberals and FDR's Preparedness Program

by Richard E. Holl

reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on November 7, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)

From Buildings and Loans to Bail-Outs: A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry, 1831-1995

by David L. Mason

reviewed by Richard H. Keehn on January 26, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity

by Richard Munson

reviewed by David B. Sicilia on January 20, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

by Rakesh Khurana

reviewed by Donald R. Stabile on November 12, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Education and Human Resource Development (G)

The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870-1920

by Maury Klein

reviewed by Tomas Nonnenmacher on December 12, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

German Industry and Global Enterprise BASF: The History of A Company

by Werner Abelshauser, Wolfgang von Hippel, Jeffrey Allan Johnson and Raymond G. Stokes

reviewed by J. Steven Jones on May 14, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's _My Years with General Motors_

by John McDonald

reviewed by David L. Mason on August 9, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

The Global Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution

by Louis Galambos, Takashi Hikino and Vera Zamagni (editors)

reviewed by Alessandro Nuvolari on August 17, 2007

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco, 1880-1945

by Howard Cox

reviewed by Geoffrey Tweedale on March 1, 2001

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola

by Kathryn W. Kemp

reviewed by Thomas R. Winpenny on January 29, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento

by Mark A. Eifler

reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 30, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)

Growth Company: Dow Chemical's First Century

by E. N. Brandt

reviewed by John K. Smith on January 19, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400-1800

by S. R. Epstein and Maarten Prak (editors)

reviewed by Christine MacLeod on December 17, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)

Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937

by Christopher A. Reed

reviewed by Elisabeth Köll on December 7, 2005

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

The Heqanakht Papyri

by James P. Allen

reviewed by Morris Silver on November 9, 2004

Geographic area: Middle East (6)
Time period: Ancient (2)
Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)

Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Three: Economic Structure and Performance

by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)

reviewed by Joseph H. Davis on July 23, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)

The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000

by Janet E. Hunter and S. Sugiyama (editors)

reviewed by John Wilson on February 7, 2003

Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship

by Juliet E. K. Walker

reviewed by Maceo Dailey on June 11, 1999

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

The History of Family Business, 1850-2000

by Andrea Colli

reviewed by Alison C. Kay on December 23, 2003

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945

by Mira Wilkins

reviewed by Michael Edelstein on January 28, 2005

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China's Finance Capitalism

by Zhaojin Ji

reviewed by Catherine Schenk on October 9, 2003

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920

by Margaret E. Derry

reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on September 20, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Military and War (O)

Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning

by Regina Lee Blaszczyk

reviewed by Lendol G. Calder on August 13, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)

Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the

by Aditya Mukherjee

reviewed by Tirthankar Roy on January 5, 2004

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture and the World Economy, 1850-2000: Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State

by Hiroyoshi Kano

reviewed by Pierre van der Eng on November 5, 2009

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

The Industrial Revolution: Milestones in Business History

by Jeff Horn

reviewed by Joyce Burnette on January 21, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720-1844

by Ron Harris

reviewed by Timothy Alborn on June 14, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

Inside IG Farben: Hoechst during the Third Reich

by Stephan H. Lindner

reviewed by Jonas Scherner on January 7, 2009

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945 to 2005

by Paul E. Ceruzzi

reviewed by Glenn Bugos on November 3, 2009

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Military and War (O), Urban and Regional History (Z)

Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries

by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

reviewed by Kenneth Lipartito on January 8, 2003

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

Investing for Middle America: John Elliot Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Advisors

by Kenneth Lipartito and Carol Heher Peters

reviewed by Douglas Steeples on February 19, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800-2000

by Christopher J. Castaneda

reviewed by Andrew Jenkins on July 2, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)

Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers

by Herbert H. Harwood Jr.

reviewed by Fred H. Smith on August 5, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)

The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates

by Peter T. Leeson

reviewed by Daniel K. Benjamin on October 3, 2009

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames, 1832-1915: An Economic and Business History

by A. J. Arnold

reviewed by Jon Sumida on January 28, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980

by Christopher Newfield

reviewed by Henry J. Bruton on April 14, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Japanese Success? British Failure? Comparisons in Business Performance since 1945

by Etsuo Abe and Terry Gourvish (editors)

reviewed by Andrew C. Godley on February 19, 1999

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873

by M. John Lubetkin

reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on July 24, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800): London’s Leading Scientific Instrument Maker

by Anita McConnell

reviewed by Christine MacLeod on August 7, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880-1914: Enterprise and Culture

by Andrew Godley

reviewed by Carmel U. Chiswick on June 3, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire

by Axel Madsen

reviewed by Ann Harper Fender on August 10, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B)

John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier

by Albert L. Hurtado

reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on September 13, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)

Kimono in the Boardroom: the Invisible Evolution of Japanese Women Managers

by Jean R. Renshaw

reviewed by Christienne L. Hinz on September 19, 2001

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Kinship and Capitalism: Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740

by Richard Grassby

reviewed by Stephen Caunce on June 4, 2002

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions

by Johann Peter Murmann

reviewed by Brent Goldfarb on September 17, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)

Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba

by W. Mark Fruin

reviewed by Andrew Robertson on July 7, 1999

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

La Compañía de Tranvías de La Coruña, 1901-2005: Redes de transporte local

by Alberte Martínez, Carlos Piñeiro and Carlos Velasco

reviewed by Jesús Mirás-Araujo on December 22, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)

Les entrepreneurs du Second Empire

by Dominique Barjot, Eric Anceau, Isabelle Lescent-Giles and Bruno Marnot

reviewed by Jean-Pierre Dormois on January 18, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B)

The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman

by Maury Klein

reviewed by Albert J. Churella on August 29, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Lincoln Electric: A History

by Virginia P. Dawson

reviewed by Daniel Nelson on July 1, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830-1890

by Andrew Dawson

reviewed by Ken Fones-Wolf on August 24, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century

by Youssef Cassis and Éric Bussière (editors)

reviewed by Mira Wilkins on November 15, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002

by Richard Saunders Jr.

reviewed by William R. Childs on April 9, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry

by James M. Rubenstein

reviewed by Thomas Winpenny on February 25, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution

by A. D. Morrison-Low

reviewed by Christine MacLeod on December 27, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970

by Christophe Lecuyer

reviewed by Glenn Bugos on February 5, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream

by M. Jeffrey Hardwick

reviewed by Scott J. Vitell on April 2, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

The Man behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

by Leslie Berlin

reviewed by Rasigan Maharajh on December 6, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance

by Dan Rottenberg

reviewed by Daniel A. Schiffman on January 8, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses

by Danny Miller and Isabel Le Breton-Miller

reviewed by Jeffrey J. Matthews on August 8, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric

by Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler

reviewed by Eric John Abrahamson on February 4, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893

by J. Forbes Munro

reviewed by Nicholas J. White on October 16, 2003

Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), Middle East (6)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934-2000

by William H. Becker and William M. McClenahan Jr.

reviewed by Jonathan J. Bean on July 1, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France

by Stephen L. Harp

reviewed by Esther Redmount on September 16, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business

by Jane R. Plitt

reviewed by Sheila L. Skemp on August 12, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

The Mechanics of Optimism: Mining Companies, Technology, and the Hot Spring Gold Rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868

by Jeffery J. Safford

reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on November 16, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)

Mellon: An American Life

by David Cannadine

reviewed by Robert Whaples on December 29, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)

Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880-1939

by Laura Ugolini

reviewed by Clare Rose on June 26, 2009

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Merchants and Migrations: Germans and Americans in Connection, 1776-1835

by Sam A. Mustafa

reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on October 3, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China

by Madeleine Zelin

reviewed by Carol H. Shiue on September 5, 2006

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

by Geoffrey Jones

reviewed by Mira Wilkins on August 22, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900-1970

by Richard Saunders Jr.

reviewed by William Huneke on February 20, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Mills in the Medieval Economy: England, 1300-1540

by John Langdon

reviewed by Karine van der Beek on January 8, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)

Money, Land and Trade: An Economic History of the Muslim Mediterranean

by Nelly Hanna (editor)

reviewed by Metin Cosgel on August 8, 2003

Geographic area: Middle East (6)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)

Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates

by Charles R. Geisst

reviewed by Werner Troesken on August 14, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington: The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur

by Stephen B. Adams

reviewed by Mark S. Foster on January 14, 1998

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921

by Robert F. Burk

reviewed by Michael Haupert on January 21, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)

Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America

by Robert E. Wright and George David Smith

reviewed by Richard H. Keehn on November 30, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years, 1806-1816

by Herbert H. Kaplan

reviewed by Brandon Dupont on February 16, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing

by John Benson and Laura Ugolini (editors)

reviewed by Nicholas Alexander on May 14, 2003

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America

by Edward J. Balleisen

reviewed by Bradley A. Hansen on July 31, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)

The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution

by Marla R. Miller

reviewed by Gloria L. Main on May 11, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995

by Louis Galambos and Jane E. Sewell

reviewed by James H. Madison on November 18, 1996

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995

by Louis Galambos and Jane E. Sewell

reviewed by Marvin Fischbaum on January 27, 1998

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad

by Robert E. Mohowski

reviewed by H. Roger Grant on November 12, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution

by Susannah Handley

reviewed by Michael Palairet on November 9, 2000

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency

by Robert Kanigel

reviewed by Hindy Lauer Schachter on November 10, 1997

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B)

Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden

by Douglas Cazaux Sackman

reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006

Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History

by Joel Mokyr (editor)

reviewed by Robert Whaples on April 20, 2005

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)

The Oxford History of Indian Business

by Dwijendra Tripathi

reviewed by Geoffrey Jones on September 9, 2005

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in America

by Jan R. McTavish

reviewed by Marc Law on May 12, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)

Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction

by David Zimmerman

reviewed by Scott Dalrymple on October 26, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art

by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser

reviewed by Bernadine Barnes on February 21, 2009

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Peter Tait: A Remarkable Story

by John E. Waite

reviewed by James Jaffe on December 4, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O)

Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860

by Tom Downey

reviewed by Lawrence A. Peskin on January 25, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce

by Sarah Abrevaya Stein

reviewed by Andrew Godley on June 23, 2009

Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782

by Ronald Hoffman

reviewed by Evan Haefeli on January 19, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic

by Rosalind Remer

reviewed by Philip Scranton on December 19, 1996

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B)

Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic

by Rosalind Remer

reviewed by Richard R. John on October 15, 1996

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B)

Profiting the Crown: Canada's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990

by Matthew J. Bellamy

reviewed by Heather Nelson on February 19, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction

by Thomas K. McCraw

reviewed by Richard N. Langlois on November 14, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)

Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin

by Pamela Walker Laird

reviewed by Laura J. Owen on July 18, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)

Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

by F. M. Scherer

reviewed by François R. Velde on January 27, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Railroads and American Law

by James W. Ely Jr.

reviewed by Harvey G. Hudspeth on July 16, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B)

Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad

by H. Roger Grant

reviewed by Bill Beck on April 6, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Railways in Britain and the United States 1830-1940

by Geoffrey Channon

reviewed by Albert J. Churella on January 10, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Records of American Business

by James M. O'Toole

reviewed by Randall C. Jimerson on May 11, 1998

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Business History (B)

Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920

by Steven W. Usselman

reviewed by Jeff Schramm on September 14, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence

by Bruce H. Mann

reviewed by David T. Flynn on February 23, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

The Rexall Story: A History of Genius and Neglect

by Mickey C. Smith

reviewed by Marvin Fischbaum on September 11, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817

by Johannes Postma and Victor Enthoven (editors)

reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on June 28, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble

by Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell and Rowena Olegario

reviewed by Michael Landry on June 17, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850

by Kim M. Gruenwald

reviewed by Diane Lindstrom on January 19, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)

Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes

by John Franch

reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 2, 2009

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862-1969

by Robert Fitzgerald

reviewed by John F. Wilson on August 21, 1995

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Rum and Axes: The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795-1850

by Janet Siskind

reviewed by Barry Levy on August 9, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

The Second Information Revolution

by Gerald W. Brock

reviewed by David Gabel on August 9, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

Selling Themselves: The Emergence of Canadian Advertising

by Russell Johnston

reviewed by George Emery on February 23, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)

Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries

by Alfred D. Chandler

reviewed by Kyle Bruce on January 13, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California

by Alfred Yee

reviewed by Albert J. Churella on February 20, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834

by S.D. Smith

reviewed by Trevor Burnard on August 7, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Small Business Policy and the American Creed

by Sandra M. Anglund

reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on June 7, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Small Firms in the Japanese Economy

by D. H. Whittaker

reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on July 10, 1997

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Small Firms, Large Concerns: The Development of Small Business in Comparative Perspective

by Konosuke Odaka and Minoru Sawai

reviewed by Zoltan J. Acs on October 11, 1999

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Smith and Nephew in the Health Care Industry

by James Foreman-Peck

reviewed by Marvin Fischbaum on March 24, 1997

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries

by David C. Mowery and Richard R. Nelson (editors)

reviewed by Paul L. Robertson on January 16, 2001

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940

by Arwen Mohun

reviewed by Jeffrey M. Hornstein on November 14, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Store Wars: Shopkeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890-1939

by David Monod

reviewed by David A. Horowitz on September 8, 1997

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B)

Street of Dreams, Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century

by Howard M. Wachtel

reviewed by Edwin Perkins on August 22, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century

by JoAnne Yates

reviewed by Thomas Haigh on May 9, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924-1970

by Robert F. Freeland

reviewed by Paul Robertson on March 28, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Studies in Economic and Social History: Essays in Honour of Derek H. Aldcroft

by Michael J. Oliver (editor)

reviewed by Ruggero Ranieri on January 28, 2003

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller

by Steve Weinberg

reviewed by Bryan C. McCannon on January 20, 2009

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903-2003

by Henry D. Fetter

reviewed by Michael J. Haupert on May 5, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)

Thomas F. Walsh: Progressive Businessman and Colorado Mining Tycoon

by John C. Stewart

reviewed by Joshua C. Hall on December 17, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)

Thurman Arnold: A Biography

by Spencer Weber Waller

reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on November 7, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)

Timken: from Missouri to Mars--A Century of Leadership

by Bettye H. Pruitt

reviewed by Roberto Mazzoleni on June 14, 1999

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

by Ron Chernow

reviewed by Christopher A. Baylor on July 11, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

by Ron Chernow

reviewed by Milton Goldin on June 24, 1998

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B)

To Wire the World: Perry M. Collins and the North Pacific Telegraph Expedition

by John B. Dwyer

reviewed by Tomas Nonnenmacher on January 14, 2002

Geographic area: Asia (2), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico, 1865-Present

by Jurgen Buchenau

reviewed by Marie Francois on April 15, 2005

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power

by Doron S. Ben-Atar

reviewed by David Jeremy on October 15, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760

by K. N. Chaudhuri

reviewed by Santhi Hejeebu on December 20, 2000

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market

by Sally H. Clarke

reviewed by Avner Offer on April 29, 2009

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

reviewed by David S. Landes on February 12, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations

by Karen S. Miller

reviewed by Pamela W. Laird on September 9, 1999

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle Class Investors

by Edwin J. Perkins

reviewed by David L. Mason on February 21, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors

by Edwin J. Perkins

reviewed by Kenneth A. Snowden on September 12, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

The Weather Channel: The Improbable Rise of a Media Phenomenon

by Frank Batten

reviewed by Toby G. Bates on November 12, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants Since 1921

by Theresa A. Hammond

reviewed by Dale L. Flesher on September 23, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science

by William H. Brock

reviewed by Larry Stewart on July 1, 2009

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

Women in Business, 1700-1850

by Nicola Phillips

reviewed by Margaret Walsh on September 22, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950

by Julio Moreno

reviewed by William Schell Jr. on September 7, 2004

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

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